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Online Bingo Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Ladbrokes Bingo have currently got a great free online bingo offer running at their bingo site where not only could you play free bingo with them each day throughout the most of this month you could also win £400 worth of free online to play at their site next month to, as they are giving [...]
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Poker News | pokernews.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Jimmy McSweeney wins the Ladbrokes Irish Poker FestivalThe much publicised Irish Winter Festival in Killarney boasted a capacity busting 832 entrants and a €416,000 prize pool, which saw Jimmy McSweeney walk away with a cool €100,000. McSweeney went into the final table as the chip leader and started where he left off when he eliminated 'Baz' Hand when his pocket tens held against the ace-king...
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
GAMING giant Ladbrokes proved unpopular with the market yesterday as its shares fell to a five-year low.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Staff at a Ladbrokes betting call centre on Merseyside stage a 24-hour walkout in a row over pay.
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
HUNDREDS of workers hung up their receivers at a major betting call centre in Liverpool this weekend.
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IC Liverpool (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
HUNDREDS of workers hung up their receivers at a major betting call centre in Liverpool this weekend.The Union of Shop, Distribution and Allied Workers (Usdaw) members at the Ladbrokes call centre site, in Aintree, held a 24-hour strike yesterday.Pickets gathered outside on one of the busiest betting days in the horse racing calendar after the company maintained a below-inflation pay offer of...
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Just Gambling (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Another story from the BBC: Staff at a Ladbrokes betting call centre on Merseyside are staging a 24-hour walkout in a row over pay. The union Usdaw said hundreds of workers at the site in Aintree were set to strike from 0500 BST on Sunday. It said staff were unhappy after being offered what they said was a [...]
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http://www.CelebrityVideoTube.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Irish Examiner Smart sprinter Corrybrough, fourth to African Rose in the Ladbrokes Sprint Cup at Doncaster last time after a rapid rise through the sprinting ranks, will not run again this campaign.Trainer Henry Can… Read the full article here
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Unreality TV (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Bookies are backing Girlband for the boot from the X Factor tomorrow night and Jessie Wallace to be eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing. Ladbrokes are offereing 11/8 odds on Jessie going home, whilst Girlband are 2/1 for the chop. Nick Weinberg from Ladbrokes told The Sun: “Jessie hasn’t set the dance floor alight and we fully expect [...]
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Poker News | pokernews.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
NETeller have announced they might be changing their name to NEOVIA, Ladbrokes lose a big court case in Norway and Pokerstars announce the next season of the LAPT.
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
It depends on which set of odds-makers you trust most. Online betting site Unibet favors Israeli author Amos Oz to be the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, scheduled to be announced tomorrow, Oct. 9, in Stockholm. Ladbrokes, a competing site, sees Italian Claudio Magris as the most likely ...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — A surprising number of bettors correctly chose French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio to win the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature — leading the award jury to suspect a leak.The annual selection by the Swedish Academy is notoriously hard to guess, but the betting firm Ladbrokes received a large number of bets on Le Clezio in the days before Thursday's announcement."I have...
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Angry Bear (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Via Mankiw , who notes that "among economists listed" at PinnacleSports , Martin Feldstein is the favorite. I was going to snark that that must be because they have a lousy field for bettors, but Mankiw links to Ladbrokes , too, where people rationally expect that declaring Economics once and for all irrelevant (i.e., giving the award to Fama and/or French) is The Way to Bet. Comparing the two...